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So why this cryptic title? Well, if, like me, you have picked up a newspaper one evening over recent weeks and flicked through past the natural disasters, credit crunch and housing crises to try to find some lighter material, you may have ended up on the “puzzles” page. The typical page will have a selection of brain teasers including the traditio...

Is the general scepticism about Brazil’s inclusion amongst the BRIC countries justified? The country is politically stable, it has a rising economy, a well-educated workforce and a burgeoning financial market of its own. Perhaps it seems too similar to India in the early part of the decade? Certainly concerns about the sluggish approach to fiscal...

Despite many sophisticated measures in place to protect cardholder data during and after a credit or debit transaction, the most likely source of PIN compromise is the simplest. Referred to as “shoul...